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on ilasik iosftoei; iraves ieatem 1 Sec. R Friday, June 20, 1958 KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON Page Former National Jockey Champion Killed In Race 1NGLEWOOD. Calif. AP - A spectacular spill in a stakes race at Hollywood Park yesterday brought a violent end to Jackie Westrope's 25-year riding career. He passed the pack on the out side and was ahead, 70 yards lrom the wire, when his mount bolted into the rail. Westrope was thrown. The 40-year-old former national riding champion hit the rail so hard, a track official said, he bent almost double backward around it. He died less than two hours la ter, despite plasma and oxygen. Westrope began big time racing at 15 and in that year 1033 rode SOI winners to become national champion. In ensuing years he had 2,439 winners from 17,136 mounts. In many winnings he raked 10th nationally with a to tal of $8,944,002. A friend who accompanied him to Centinela Hospital after the ac cident said: "There wasn't a mark on him But he was all broken up inside." i Doctors said he suffered severe internal injuries and fractures ol the shoulder, arm, elbow ana ribs. An autopsy will be per formed. No inquiry is planned at the track. "The only one at fault was the horse," said a Hollywood Park official. His mount-, a 3-year-old (illy JTBARKS n' bites By WAYNE SCOTT So . . . it's come to this. Yours truly was the recipient of a letter this week . . . from a doubting Thomas (this is not his name). This particular "doubter" was doubting, this time, whether Klamath Falls would ever have a "Little League Park," as such. He even went so far as to issue a challenge . . . something to the effect that I would have a long grey beard before such a park was ever a reality. . . . Maybe you can guess the rest ... I now get to face the summer (only a portion thereof, I hope) with a beard. I can shave when the first shovel of earth has been turned for the brand new, regulation Little League Ball Park,. . . Then, and then only. As of Saturday morning my trusty Remington (razor, that is) goes Into the shop for a much needed repair job. ... I won't be using it (or a little while any way. There Is a lot lo be done before Iiext winter sets In . . . what with the extreme distaste I have for wearing Ice cubes, icicles, etc. on my (ace. A hurried fall to George Jen sen o( the Redding Searchlight, Redding, already has a Little League park, gave me a rough Idea o( a plan to follow in order to keep my beard to a minimum of growth. It seems that in Redding (he .Kiwanls Club built their hail park as a club project in 1954. Two years Inter they were joined by the Optimists, the Lions and the 20-30 Club. Today all (our of (he clubs are banded (ngether in oper ating and maintaining the park. Admittedly, they have made a lot of mistakes, but they all agree that the thrill, satisfaction and ,thc (un they have had more than off lets the work they have put In. The nd result of their efforts Is that Redding, a city half the size of Klamath, has 18 teams of happy Little Leaguers as compared (o six in our town. Remember . . . approximately 35 would-be players were turned away from each of the 15-man teams that were formed here. Personally, I feel that our '"doubting" friend was wrong In his thought that Klamath Falls would never have a home for its Little Leaguers. There must be a lot of others who feel (he same way . . . until it gets started, however, I will wear a beard. Once around the diamonds. Overheard from a Little League coach, "So help me, I'm gonna withdraw my team from the league, I just don't see how I can stand much more of this. Work all day, every day, without a care in the world, then two weeks of these 'squeakers,' and my ulcers are getting ulcers." This particular coach had just finished watching a Frank Merriwell victory earned (?) by his club. iP.S. said coach was kidding!. ... A noted doctor recently said, "Little League ball ic alwavc the toughest on the adults. The kids take it in stride." A newspaper report from Ken sha, Wisconsin, states that in the past three years professional base ball scouts hanging around their Simmons Field have signed six iHMHwHIMni named Well Away, began lugging in toward the rail near the end of the $28,350 Hollywood Oaks, mile and an eighth feature event Said Wendell Cassidy, presiding race siewara: "Westrope was doing all he could to straighten her even hit ting her alongside the head. Sud denly the filly bolted into the fence, throwing Westrope." rred Smith was killed at the ame track in 1951. Other spills claimed Georgic Woolf at Santa Vnita in 1946 and Richard Thompson at Gulfstream in 1952. In his quarter-century of riding Westrope booted many a famous horse to victory in big stakes races. Amont his wins were the 1938 Santa Anita Derby, ,on Stagehand; the 1939 San Juan Capistrano at Santa Anita, aboard Cravat: the 1954 Jersey takes, with War of, Roses. He rode Honeymoon to victory in the 1946 inaugural of the Holly wood Oaks, the race in which lie died. Westrope had made headlines on practically every big track in North America. In 1945 he was grounded at Del Mar for a rough ride aboard Ace Hudkins. In 1952 he rode Intent to an apparent victory in the Santa Anita Handicap but stewards said he fouled Miche in the home stretch and he drew a 34-day suspension. Westrope was born in Baker. Mont., and rode his first bush track win at Lemon, S.D., when he was 12. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.T. Westrope of suburban Monrovia. were at the hospital when he died. He also leaves the widow. Ce celia, and four daughters, Pam. 14, Jan, 13, Jackie, 2. and Jill. 3 months. Pam and Jan are daugh ters by his first wife, actress Nan Gray, now the wife of singer Frankie Laine. Now WAYNE SCOTT When? youngsters to minor league con tracts. Each of these boys came up through the Little League sys tem. . . . From what we have ob served in Little League and Babe Ruth League right here in Klam ath Falls so far this season, . it won't be too long a time before the scouts would do well to make a trip to the Basin. The newly started Bantam and Peewee leagues, which play at Ki wanis Park every weekday eve ning, have set some records that may stand for quite a spell . ihen again they may not. . Anyway. . . . The other night Cub Pack No. 4 won with a score of 31-4 from the Eastside Cubs. . The next evening the Plumbers and Fitters racked up a count of 35-1 over Cub Pack No. 77. . Perhaps the two losing coaches are teaching a philosophy that one ultimately defeats ones' op ponent by running him to death. . . . "Softball with a built-in rooting section" is scheduled for Gem Stadium Saturday night when the Klamath Basincttes tangle with the Sierra Sports from Heno. The Basinettes are a newly re organized version of the 1954 Ore gon State omens Softball Cham pionship Team . . . and where do we get the "built-in rooting sec tion" . . . well, you can hardly expect the kids to stay home with (Continued on Page 3R) By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Okay, so Al Lopez has made his point. Those winter trades that peddled power for pitching have helped give his Chicago White box lour shutouts in five games. But they're still seventh in the American League race. 114 games behind. Jim Wilson, Dick Donovan and Billy Pierce, three old hands pitched consecutive shutouts, and after taking a five-home run pounding from Boston Wednesday the White Sox beat the Red Sox 4-0 yesterday on the two-hit pitch ing of Early Wynn. The veteran right-hander, ac quired from Cleveland, now has pair of two-hitters for the sea son, and owns half of the six shut outs bagged by the Chicago staff Yesterdays showpiece, in which he faced but 30 men and didn't give up a hit after the sixth, was his 36th major league shutout and his 10th two-hitter in the big time Yet the White Sox didn't gain i inch on the first place New York Yankees, who rapped five homers and beat Cleveland 9-3 lor three-game sweep that left em nine games ahead of second place Bcston. Washington junked its slump at five games, and ended Detroit's winning string at five, with a 4-3 decision. Baltimore jumped into filth with a 4-2 vic tory at Kansas City. In the National League, the Chicago Cubs belted four home VTAH HAS GROSSCLP SALT LAKE CITY (tf-The Uni versity of Utah football team will use the balanced T-formation next fall. Coach Ray Nagel has star passer Lee Grosscup back for field general duties in Nagel's first year as Utah coach. Baker Vies With DeJohn SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) Mike DeJohn, a handsome heavyweight with a great potential, is a 7-5 choice to whip hulking Bob Baker of Pittsburgh in a television 10 rounder at War Memorial Audi torium Friday night. A red hot contender eight months ago, the 26-year-old Syra cuse Slammer now needs a de cisive victory over the 31-year-old Baker to get back in the limelight Last October the rangy, hard hitting DeJohn scored a sensation al one-round knockout over then unbeaten Alex Mileff of Argentina Mike appeared to be the dynamic new personality the drab heavy weight division needed so badly. But the easy-going, fun loving youngster seemed content to rest on his laurels. Instead of bearing down on the rest of the contend ers he remained on the sidelines until last April 23 when he met Cuba s Nino Valdrs, another hap py-go-lucky character. The big Cuban beat Mike by a narrow, split decison. The one re deeming factor in the loss for Mike was that he rallied strongly in the final round. Uusually he's through at that stage. Mike stands 6-2 4 and weighs about 204. Baker is another friendly fellow who lacks the necessary fire. A pro since 1949, Big Bob has had many chances to fight his way into a title scrap. He was No. 1 contender several times. But when it came close to fighting for title, Bob wasn't too interested. He said he preferred to be No. 3 instead of No. 1. DeJohn is now ranked ninth Baker no longer is ranked. Bob's record is 50-11-1 with 19 knockouts. The 6-2. 215 pounder won his last three lights in l!i.7 and hasn t fought since December. DeJohn s record is 34-4-1 with 25 knockouts. Wynn Gets 2-Hitter Yankees Rap Indians Klamath Kubs Slate Two Baseball Foes Klamath Falls' Kubs, with all their new talent on hand, arc scheduled for two outings this veekend starting Friday night at Camp White. The Kubs travel to Camp White for a single game then Sunday make a jaunt to Dunsmuir for a Northern Califor nia League game in hopes of hold ing their slim half-game league lead. Manager Irv Whitt announced this week all hands will be ready for action this week with the ex ception of third baseman Mike McKenzie who is still at Nation al Guard camp. But shortstop Dorm Martin and relief pitcher Wayne Haronaka are both eligible for league play after sitting out one week with the club. The Kubs carry a half-game lead into their game with Duns muir and hope to make it two straight over the Merchants this season, fn the first round, Klam alh posted a 20-11 nod over Duns muir in a game played here. Other Northern Cal action finds econd place Mount Shasta at Weed and Yreka visiting Scott Val ley's winless stars. All games are billed for 2 o clock Pacific Day light Time. PHILLIES CONTRACT FOUR PHILADELPHIA (UFI) The Philadelphia Phillies have signed four players for minor league at- filiates. 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Cincinnati and St. Louis were idled by rain. ill 'As! By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pet. GB New York 38 19 .667 Boston 31 .10 .508 9 Detroit 28 30 .483 lO'-i Kansas City 28 30 .483 10li Baltimore 27 30 .474 11 Cleveland 29 33 .4B8 ll'i Chicago 27 31 .466 114 Washington 27 32 .458 12 Thursday's Results New York 9. Cleveland 3 Chicago 4, Boston 0 Washington 4. Detroit 3 Baltimore 4, Kansas City 2 (night) NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pel. GD 32 23 .582 33 28 .541 2 27 26 .509 4 30 29 .5118 4 28 28 .500 4 29 32 .475 fi 26 31 .458 7 25 33 .431 8'i EARLY WYNN . . . hurls two-hitter Sox 4, Boston 0 Wynn. now 7-5, walked but two and struck out eight. He leads ac tive major leaguers with 1.705 strikeouts in his 18-year career. He gave up a second-inning sin gle by Frank Malzone and a sixth inning single by loser Frank Sul livan (4-2). Wynn fanned Ted Wil liams for the last out. Early, 38, scored the only run he needed himself, on Billy Good man s third-inning sacrifice fly. Boston 000 0110 000 0 2 0 Chicago 0Q1 200 lOx 4 110 Sullivan. Kiely (8) and White. Wynn (7-5) and Lollar. Loser Sullivan (4-21. NY 9, Indians 3 Andy Carey hit two of the Yan kee homers, giving him eight. Both were off reliever Bob Lem- Hnme runs by Enos Slaughter and Elston Howard gave New York a 3-0 lead in the second against rookie Gary Bell, who lost his first in three decisions. Hank Bauer got the other Yank homer, while Rocky Colavito hit his 11th, with one on, in the ninth for the Indians. Johnny Kucks (5-3) went all the way with an eight-hitler. New York 030 110 1129 17 0 Cleveland 001 000 002 3 8 1 Kucks (5-3) and Howard. Bell. Lemon (4) and Nixon. Loser Bell 12-1). HRs Slaughter, Howard, Carey 2. Bauer, Colavito. Orioles 4. KC2 The Orioles, in last place be fore sweeping three at Kansas City, took it on Gene Woodling's two-run homer in the eighth off Ned Carver, who has lost three in a row. Ken Lehman won it in re- (Conllnued on Page 3R) .Milwaukee San Francisco Cincinnati Pittsburgh St. Louis Chicago Philadelphia Los Angeles . Thursday's Results Chicago 5. Milwaukee 4 (night) Philadelphia 9, Los Angeles i .night) Pittsburgh 6. San Francisco 5 St. Louis at Cincinnati, night post poned (rain) By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS W U Pet. GB .621 .588 2 .569 3'.i .547 5 .433 12 .424 13 .403 14 .403 14 'i Vancouver - 41 25 Phoenix 40 28 San Diego 37 28 Salt Lake City 35 29 Portland 26 34 Spokane 28 38 Sacramento 25 37 Seattle 27 40 Thursday's Results Phoenix 2, Sacramento 1 Spokane 5, San Diego 3 Seattle 7, Salt Lake City Portland 2, Vancouver 1 NORTHWEST LEAGUE W L Pel. GB Lewiston 37 18 .673 Wenatchee 32 26 .552 6 Yakima 30 27 .526 8 Tri-City 25 28 .472 11 Eugene 21 31 ,4m l4'-i Salem 20 35 .364 17 Thursday's Results Salem 4, Tri-City 2 (12 innings) Eugene 9. Yakima 4 Wenatchee 4, Lewiston 2 Chicago Tops Spahn; Giants, Dodgers Bow By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS First Stan Musial. Then Willie Mays. Now it's Warren Spahn. Milwaukee's standout southpaw, who has been hit by the slump epidemic sweeping the National League. Spahnie. one of the all-time great left-handers, was off on a streak in pursuit of his ninth sea son of 20 or more victories. He was the first to win eight, May 31. He hasn't won since. He lost his third in a row last night, again beaten by a gopher ball, as the Chicago Cubs ham mered four home runs for a 5-4 decision that held the Braves' (irst-place edge to two games. Rookie Tony Taylor s first major league homer was the clincher in the ninth. It was the 11th homer given up by Spahn in the three-game slump, nine of 'em by the Cubs who started his skid with five home runs in a 9-6 decision June 10. Second place San Francisco with .Mays sent to a New York hospital for a check-up was beat en 6-5 at Pittsburgh. Philadelphia rapped Los Angeles 9-3. Cincinnati and St. Louis were idled by rain. In the American League, the New York Yankees hit five home runs for a 9-3 victory at Cleve land, Early Wynn tossed a two- hitter that beat Boston 4-0 for the Chicago White Sox, Washington ended Detroit's winning streak at live games 4-3 and Baltimore de feated Kansas City 4-2. Cubs 5, Braves 4 Spahn now 8-4 has given up 18 home runs this season, 14 of them in the games he lost. He allowed only 23 homers all last year. Walt Moryn, who now has hit 15, counted a pair off Spahn last night and Al Dark got the other. But it was Taylor who was in Spahn's hair, lie stole home for a 1-0 lead in the first inning, then cracked a 4-4 tie with his homer that chased Spahn with one out in the ninth. Spahn. whose single was the only hit off Cub starter John Bnggs for three innings, made his :otn career homo run, first of the year, good for two runs as the Braves took a 3-2 lead in the fourth. 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